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Q: Where are you from and what did you do before opening
your business?

A: I am originally from Mexico. I owned another Hot Yoga
studio before opening Hot Yoga Pura Vida.

Q: Why did you open your business in this community?

A: I live in Ahwatukee so it made sense to open the studio
nearby. Not to mention, Ahwatukee and Chandler are active
communities with mountain bikers, road cyclist, runners, athletes,
golfers and overall fun driven people.

Q: How did you get the idea to open your business?

A: At 16 years of age, I was told to get a desk job and
that my life would be short or that I would end up in a wheelchair
due my condition: Spina Bifida.

Practicing Hot Yoga saved my life from depression and believing I
would die at any given moment. Today, you would never know I had
any condition unless I shared it with you.

I believe a person has to want to live and most of us have a choice
of how we will live. I've been doing this for over 10 years and I
opened this business to remind others to take charge.

To motivate them to fight back and face their challenges. To remind
them that they matter and in most cases, that others are depending
on them to lead the way.

That it's more than just working out or losing weight. That it's
about having the ability to do things with their kids and living a
life that doesn't revolve around fast food or sitting around a
television for hours wasting time.

A: One of our goals is to partner up with other local
businesses and conduct educational services for the nearby
communities. Yoga workshops/events, teacher trainings, yoga
retreats and yoga/hiking ventures.

Q: Anything else you want the community to know about you
or your business?

A: Yes. It doesn't take anyone to be flexible or know
anything about yoga. That's why we're here, to guide you through
it.

As a society, we are suffering from things such as diabetes,
obesity, low energy, mental stressors, depression and heart
conditions. Providing programs for the public to access is
important because it creates awareness. We should not ignore what
we're up against any longer.

Our goal is to create a community at the studio that will be driven
to be their best and become healthy. To be consistent with their
practice, motivated to create the changes that they need and want
and to have fun doing it.

A community that practices Hot Yoga with a vision; be it losing
weight, building strength or becoming more flexible. A community
that simply gets it done.